Charleston Currents – Statehouse Report

NEWS BRIEFS: Chamber recognizes community champions of 2020

Staff reports | Navigating the economic challenges of 2020 were tough, but some individuals and businesses learned ways to make it through and make big local differences in the area.

by Charleston Currents · 04/26/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized

BRACK: Meet Tom Johnson, Magnolia’s “camellia man”

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Simply put, Tom Johnson is a character — a Georgia-drawling, camellia-addicted, big-hearted, fun-loving, hard-working, straight-talking character.

We tell you this because Johnson, who oversees the country’s largest camellia assortment at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, is featured as “The Camellia Man” in the latest and 50th anniversary issue of Southern Living (pp. 144-149). In the article, he’s as sassy and fun as we remember during a trip to Cuba with him, wife Mary Ann Johnson and more than a dozen others last August.

by Andy Brack · 02/01/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

BRACK: Too many dying in South Carolina traffic wrecks

By Andy Brack | Too many South Carolinians are dying in traffic wrecks as more state residents take to the road due, in part, to less expensive fuel.
As reported Friday by Statehouse Report, some 930 people died as of Christmas Eve on South Carolina roads in 2015. That’s 133 more people than died in wrecks in 2014 and it’s more than any year since 2007 when 1,077 people died on the state’s highways.